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Nineteen Eighty-Four, also known as 1984, is a 1984 dystopian drama film written and directed by Michael Radford, based upon George Orwell 's 1949 novel of the same name. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith (Hurt), a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ...
December. 1–16 December – Singapore hosts the Asian Cup 1984 for the first time, with the tournament ending with a 2–0 finish in favour of Saudi Arabia against the Chinese team. [17] 22 December – The PAP wins the 1984 General Election while two members of the opposition parties are elected as members of parliament.
Victim of rape & murder. The murder of Angela Samota occurred on October 13, 1984, when she was attacked while in her apartment, raped and killed. The case remained unsolved until DNA evidence surfaced in the 2000s, following which charges were brought against a convicted rapist, Donald Andrew Bess Jr., who was subsequently tried and received a ...
STS-41-G (formerly STS-17) was the 13th flight of NASA 's Space Shuttle program and the sixth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Challenger launched on October 5, 1984, and conducted the second shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center on October 13, 1984. It was the first shuttle mission to carry a crew of seven, including the first crew with ...
October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 81 days remain until the end of the year.
1984 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player; 1985 – Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer; 1985 – Brandon Jackson, American football player; 1986 – Camilla Belle, American actress; 1987 – Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player; 1987 – Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
